08/18/2022
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of August 17, 2022
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๐—ก๐—ฌ๐—–๐—™๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜†.๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด ๐—ข๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€
โ€ข 10 Facts You Should Know About NYCโ€™s Composting Efforts (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โ€ข Outdoor Dining in New York City: Research and News Roundup (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โ€ข ICYMI: New York City Residents Push Back Against a Permanent Open Restaurants Program (nycfoodpolicy.org)

๐—™๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ ๐——๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜
๐˜•๐˜ ๐˜Š ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ๐˜ด
โ€ข Inflation, the Economy and Food Banks (Spectrum News)
โ€ข โ€˜People Are Going to Go Hungryโ€™: La Jornada Continues Search for New Home Following NYCHA Eviction (Queens Daily Eagle)
โ€ข Brooklyn Teens Address Food Insecurity, Nutrition Education in Schools (BK Reader)
โ€ข The Dirt on Composting in NYC (Chelsea News)
โ€ข New York State Launches New Hotline for Complaints of Workplace Sexual Harassment (Total Food Service)
โ€ข NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed Aug. 6 – 12 (New York Patch)
โ€ข A New York City Restaurant Chain Cashes in on a Shrunken Office Crowd (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข New Yorkโ€™s Only Trader Joeโ€™s Wine Shop Abruptly Closes (Eater)
โ€ข A ‘Little Banchan Shop’ for Long Island City (The New York Times)
โ€ข Dรฎner en Blanc Returning to New York City in September (CBS)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ
โ€ข 5 Billion Could Starve to Death if U.S., Russia Engage in Nuclear War: Study (Axios)
โ€ข Governor Hochul Announces $234 Million in Additional Food Assistance For August (New York State)
โ€ข What the Most Recent Map the Meal Gap Tells Us (Food Pantry News)
โ€ข NYHealth Survey of Food and Health (NYHealth)
โ€ข World Hunger, Severe Food Insecurity Grew in 2021 (Gallup)
โ€ข The World Food Crisis Is About to Get Worse (Politico)
โ€ข Food Security: Embed Equity in New Targets (Nature)
โ€ข Inflation and COVID, a Baby Formula Shortage and Food Insecurity: Why Arenโ€™t More Eligible Americans Using WIC? (USA Today)
โ€ข Food Prices Continue to Rise Even as Overall Inflation Cools (Food Navigator)
โ€ข Hunger, Food Insecurity Plague N.J. And Nation. Booker, Assembly Speaker Seek Solutions. (NJ.com)
โ€ข Food Inflation Hits Native American Households Most, Poll Finds (Bloomberg)
โ€ข How to Fix Food Supply Chains? Make Them More Local (Bloomberg)
โ€ข To Tackle Hunger We Need to Fix Food Subsidies (The Washington Post)
โ€ข Food Pantry Networks are Evolving. Hereโ€™s How. (Food Pantry News)
โ€ข Businesses Have a Role to Play in Achieving Global Food Security. This Is What They Can Do (World Economic Forum)
โ€ข A Culinary Apprenticeship Fights Food Insecurity in Rochester (Next City)
โ€ข Scientists Scramble to Explain Why Western Alaska Wild Salmon Stocks Are Low (NPR)
โ€ข United States Announces $80 Million Commitment to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to Improve Food Security and Nutrition for Vulnerable Afghans (USAID)
โ€ข Canada Seeks to Boost Foreign Aid for Food Security – Minister (Reuters)
โ€ข Food Insecurity and Terrorism: What Famine Means for Somalia (Foreign Policy Research Institute)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜บ
โ€ข Sugar in School Meals? Lots. (Food Politics)
โ€ข Pandemic-Era Free School Meals Expire, Leaving Some Districts Seeking Solutions (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข Farm to School Efforts Just Got a Big Influx of Cash. Will It Help More Schools Get On Board? (Civil Eats)
โ€ข Delay to Massachusetts State Law Keeps Pork on the Menu (Farms)
โ€ข Can Kenyaโ€™s Food Donation Policy Reduce Food Waste? (Food Tank)

๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ˆ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ
โ€ข How the Inflation Reduction Act Affects Food and Agriculture (Mother Jones)
โ€ข FDA’s New Proposed Food-Safety Ag Water Rule No Slam Dunk (Food Safety News)
โ€ข Sustainable Food and Farming (Yale University)
โ€ข Sustainable Hog Farming to Keep the Next Generation On the Land (Food Tank)
โ€ข Op-ed: The Loss of My Familyโ€™s Farm Is a Loss for Californiaโ€™s Japanese Agricultural Legacy (Civil Eats)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต
โ€ข Deep Dive: Food Securityโ€™s Climate Problem (Devex)
โ€ข Meat Has a Big Carbon Footprint. The Inflation Reduction Act Ignores It. (Vox)
โ€ข Food Systems Need to Be More Sustainable. Engaging Global Stakeholders Can Help (World Economic Forum)
โ€ข Reality Sets in as Global Consumer Concerns Over Climate Change and Food Shortages Escalate (PR Newswire)
โ€ข The Arctic Is Heating Up Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the Planet (Grist)
โ€ข Hidden Inside the Inflation Reduction Act: $20 Billion to Help Fix Our Farms (Vox)
โ€ข โ€œThe Results Will Be Direโ€: Extreme Heat to Impact a Quarter of US by Midcentury (Grist)
โ€ข This Group Has Rerouted 250 Million Pounds of Food From Landfills to Feed People in Need (Civil Eats)
โ€ข US Issues Western Water Cuts as Drought Leaves Colorado River Near โ€˜Tipping Pointโ€™ (The Guardian)
โ€ข Plant-Based Meat 10 Times More Sustainable Than Beef, Study Estimates (The Beet)
โ€ข England Must Reduce Meat Intake to Avoid Climate Breakdown, Says Food Tsar (The Guardian)
โ€ข The Bigger This Fungus Gets, the Worse Weโ€™re Doing (The Atlantic)
โ€ข 12 Companies Turning Food Waste Into Fashion Statements (Food Tank)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด
โ€ข Pardon the Disruption: Why Grocery Chains Are Outperforming Expectations Amid Inflation (Grocery Dive)
โ€ข Restaurant Meals Become a Relative Bargain as Grocery Prices Soar (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข Restaurant Chains And Food Brands Clash Over Affordability Of Eating In (Tasting Table)
โ€ข Rising Food Prices Could Become a Business Risk, Analysts Say (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข Ukraineโ€™s Food Exports Slowly Pick Up Under Grain-Corridor Agreement (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข Dented, Dated, Discontinued? At the Salvage Grocery, Itโ€™s Called a Deal (The New York Times)
โ€ข From Twinkies to Nutter Butters, Lack of Ingredients Hampers Snack Food Production (Food Dive)
โ€ข $5 for Spaghetti Sauce? Shoppers Are Rushing In. (New York Times)
โ€ข Walmart Moves Upmarket (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข IRI: Consumers Seeking Bargains Amid Inflation (The Food Institute)
โ€ข Supermarkets Move to Simplify Date Labels to Cut Food Waste (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข Analysis: Why Demand for Cold Storage is Sky High (The Food Institute)
โ€ข Facebook Scammers Stole Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Posing as Luxury Restaurant Suppliers (Eater)
โ€ข Can Hotels Make Breakfast Important Again? (Grub Street)
โ€ข Inflation in Britain Jumps to 10.1 Percent, Pushed Higher by Food Prices (New York Times)
โ€ข UK Investor Coalition Calls for Stricter Food Industry Standards (Food Tank)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด
โ€ข Facing Dire Worker Shortages, Restaurants Add Staff Perks to the Menu (Washington Post)
โ€ข A Second Trader Joeโ€™s Just Unionized. It Could Be the Next Starbucks. (Vox)
โ€ข Trader Joeโ€™s Workers in Minneapolis Vote Overwhelmingly to Unionize (Grocery Dive)
โ€ข Chicagoโ€™s DoorDash and Grubhub Drivers Take a Step Toward Unionizing (Eater)
โ€ข Del Friscoโ€™s Broke Fair Workweek Labor Law in Philadelphia (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
โ€ข California Could Transform How Fast Food Workers Are Treated (Vox)
โ€ข Whole Foodsโ€™ Battle Against Black Lives Matter Masks Has Much Higher Stakes (Bloomberg)
โ€ข Op-ed: The End of Roe v. Wade Makes Reproductive Health Even Tougher for Farmworkers (Civil Eats)
โ€ข How to Push Food Prices Even Higher (The Wall Street Journal)
โ€ข Op-ed: Itโ€™s Time to End the Poultry Industryโ€™s Exploitative Contracts (Civil Eats)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ & ๐˜Š๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ
โ€ข Chef Mashama Bailey on Reclaiming African-American Food (Financial Times Podcast)
โ€ข In a Tense Political Moment, Taiwanese Cuisine Tells Its Own Story (New York Times)
โ€ข In FXโ€™s โ€˜The Bear,โ€™ Italian Beef Is a Means for Grief. Hereโ€™s How Memory and Food Span Science, Time and Place (Grid)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜—๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ
โ€ข USDA Recommends Adding Food Safety Items to Your Back-to-School List (USDA)
โ€ข USDA: Salmonella Is an Adulterant (A First Step) (Food Politics)
โ€ข Second Lawsuit Filed Targeting Skittles Ingredient (Food Dive)
โ€ข Capri Sun Drink Recalled Because of Cleaning Solution Issue Found After Consumer Complaints (Food Safety News)
โ€ข EU to Tighten Ethylene Oxide Rule for Food Additives (Food Safety News)
โ€ข I Eat at Restaurants for a Living. Thatโ€™s Not Why My Stomach Always Hurt. (The New York Times)

๐—™๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜€ ๐——๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜
โ€ข Qualitative Study of Participation Facilitators and Barriers for Emergency School Meals and Pandemic Electronic Benefits (P-EBT) In an Urban Setting During COVID-19 (Nutrients)
โ€ข Added Sugars in School Meals and Competitive Foods (USDA.gov)
โ€ข Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Demonstrate Rapid Practice Changes to Address Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic (The Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)
โ€ข Perceived Barriers to Client-Choice Conversion Among Arkansas Food Pantries (Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development)
โ€ข Dietary Transition Determining the Tradeoff Between Global Food Security and Sustainable Development Goals Varied in Regions (Advancing Earth and Space Science)

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